Education is not the piling on of learning,information, data, facts, skills, or abilities -that's training or instruction -but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.- Thomas More

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories,the police are prowling through the cities,the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers,but the earth is still going round the sun.- George Orwell

When our most important issue is the debt that we'repiling on our children and grandchildren,I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S.Senate who has actually managed billions of dollarsand knows how to cut billions of dollars.- Carly Fiorina

Most electronic equipment uses the principle of amplification.You need filters, modulators and mixing equipment which have gain stages.By piling these components up, I was able to work withoutany sound generators and I made several pieces in that manner.- David Tudor

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I hate American simplicity.I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.If I could pronounce the name James in any differentor more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.- Henry James

If you have an important point to make,don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver.Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again.Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.- Winston Churchill

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it,bearing within him the image of a cathedral.- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of thetable and you warn that they will crash to the ground,in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.- Desmond Tutu

You create a pile of dirt and then drive over it.We may have to learn to drive all over again.- Steven Squyres

A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant,to ruin runs.- Edward Young

Stargate by far is the top of the pile when it comes to Sci-Fi.The quality is great.They have really good writers, production design,lighting, wardrobe.- Corin Nemec

Let's leave beside them in another pile all the injusticeswhich exist in the northern state.- Martin McGuinness

My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of cataloguesand let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.- Kary Mullis

Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.- P. G. Wodehouse

If you can get a twelve year-old kid to go listen to Thelonius Monk,what more do you want? Do you want a big pile of cash,too? That's a home run for me.- Jimmy Chamberlin

The cobs were delivered to a big pile.We were one of the first to feed corn cobs to cattle.- Orville Redenbacher

The world is a pile of grunge.- Jo Stafford

Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.- Sylvia Plath

Behind every working woman is an enormous pile of unwashed laundry.- Barbara Dale

There are so many things to take into account -your ambition,your ego, the press, the consumers.You can never be sure that you'll be on top of the pile again.- Giorgio Armani

I think Robbie Williams is an utter and complete prat.His last record was a pile of rubbish.- Pete Waterman

I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.- Robert Smith

And, in a funny way, each death is different and youmourn each death differently and each death bringsback the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.- Nigella Lawson

It was like there was a pile of kindling that was inthe back of my imagination just waiting there.Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas.- Kevin J. Anderson

I used to get on a stove wood pile at 5-6 years oldand I would have a piece of stove wood and kindling bark as a pick,and I was a star.- Jerry Reed

Is education possibly a process of trading awarenessfor things of lesser worth? The goose who trades hisis soon a pile of feathers.- Aldo Leopold

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.- Thomas A. Edison

A journalist and an information architect face exactly the same problem -how to give shape to the pile of information in frontof you in a way that will make it easy and naturalfor people to comprehend.I can't imagine any better preparation for the work I do now.- Jesse James Garrett

If I get a script that's set in the jungle it goesto the bottom of the pile because I don't think theplaygrounds are going to be very good there!I'm really aware of how lucky I am but I have the kindof job where I can bring my child to work.- Kate Beckinsale

If you would be just as content winning a local GoldenGloves fight as you would making a pile of money as a professional,then fine, go become a boxer.But if the whole idea is for you to get rich,my God, stay in school and learn a profession.- Gerald McRaney

I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet,so he gave me pep pills.Know what happened? I ate faster.- Joe E. Lewis

I am not naturally that thin, so I had to go througheverything from using drugs to diet pills to laxatives to fasting.Those were my main ways of controlling my weight.- Carre Otis

I took pain pills to get to sleep because I didn'twant to go to work the next day exhausted.- Dick York

The causes of youth violence are working parents whoput their kids into daycare,the teaching of evolution in the schools,and working mothers who take birth control pills.- Tom DeLay

I want pills called September 10.You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened.- Doug Coupland

That's what I do...Some people smoke weed, some people smoke cigarettes,some people snort coke...I pop pills, I smoke and I drink syrup,that's my twist.- Beanie Sigel

We're more effective than birth control pills.- Johnny Carson

I forgot my pills, I couldn't have cared less about condoms,all for feverishly wanting to get some!- Gloria Trevi

I took a bottle of pills.I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe andI was just drinking and drinking,trying to, you know, just shut my body down.- Jack Osbourne

I'm addicted to Altoids.I call them 'acting pills.'- Harrison Ford

No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals.I control it well enough and with no pills,and I sleep seven hours a night.I go to bed.I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later,and this is the most important.- Karl Lagerfeld

My mother begged doctors to end her life.She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enoughof the weak morphine pills she had around her.When she knew she was dying I promised to make sureshe could go at a time of her choosing,but it was impossible.I couldn't help.- Polly Toynbee

Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art.It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters;it deals with the very processes of life,which must be understood before they may be guided.- Paracelsus

But one led to two, two led to four,four led to eight,until at the end it was about 85 a day -the doctors could not believe I was taking that much.And that was just the valium - I'm not talking aboutthe other pills I went through.- Corey Haim

My mother was a professional sick person;she took a lot of pain pills.There are many people like that.It's just how they are used to getting attention.I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholicswho'd leave her alone at Christmas time.- Jim Carrey

He would use amphetamines to stay awake because hewould have late night maneuvers that would go way intothe early morning hours and he was given pills to stay up for the long hours.- Priscilla Presley

I was seeing everything through pain.I would roll out of bed and do my exercises.I had to do that to work out the remainder of the pain pills.I would drink coffee and go to the set and plunge myself so far into my work.- Dick York

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it,no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifelessas the piles of dry dust in a school history book.- Ellen Glasgow

I can get a better grasp of what is going on in theworld from one good Washington dinner party than fromall the background information NBC piles on my desk.- Barbara Walters

Affirmative action has a negative effect on our societywhen it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.- John Kasich

Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie;the clouds were like light piles of cotton;and where the blue sky was visible,it wore a hazy and languid aspect.- Francis Parkman

All we know is that, at times, fighting the Russians,we had to remove the piles of enemy bodies from before our trenches,so as to get a clear field of fire against new waves of assault.- Paul von Hindenburg

In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes,where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water,ancient wooden piles are observed at the bottom sometimesworn down to the surface of the mud,sometimes projecting slightly above it.- Charles Lyell

Egos seem to be a lot more frequent.I've been to loads of parties that were just crazy -whatever you would call Hollywood parties -and it's not like piles of cocaine on the tables and chicks naked,running around.- Ethan Suplee

The habit of building houses upon piles,which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen,was afterwards followed as a matter of taste,just as it is in Holland.- Edward Burnett Tylor

If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk,stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along.When in doubt, route.- Malcolm Forbes

When we get piled upon one anotherin large cities, as in Europe,we shall become as corrupt as Europe.- Thomas Jefferson

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again;we had longer ways to go.But no matter, the road is life.- Jack Kerouac

You can have money piled to the ceiling but the sizeof your funeral is still going to depend on the weather.- Chuck Tanner

He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of allthe general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down;and then,as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.- Herman Melville

Democracy is never a thing done.Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing.What is necessary now is one thing and one thing onlythat democracy become again democracy in action,not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.- Archibald MacLeish

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.The occasion is piled high with difficulty,and we must rise with the occasion.As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.- Abraham Lincoln

Never be discouraged.If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia,with the Rocky Mountains piled on me,I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage,and I would come out on top.- Joseph Smith, Jr.

When at last we are sure, You've been properly pilled,Then a few paper forms, Must be properly filled.So that you and your heirs, May be properly billed.- Dr. Seuss

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.- Francis Bacon

Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a governor.And perhaps they should understand the role of a communityorganizer is to help people in distress.- Donna Brazile

Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and JesusChrist the first great victim of censorship.- Ben Lindsey